UPDATE - RT En Espanol Launches 24/7 Open Air Broadcasting In US Via Televiva TV Network

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UPDATE - RT en Espanol Launches 24/7 Open Air Broadcasting in US Via Televiva TV Network

The RT en Espanol broadcaster has launched round-the-clock open air broadcasting in the United States and is now available in digital format on channel 21.11 of the US state of Texas' Televiva television station, the RT broadcaster said in a statement on Monday.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 10th December, 2018) The RT en Espanol broadcaster has launched round-the-clock open air broadcasting in the United States and is now available in digital format on channel 21.11 of the US state of Texas' Televiva television station, the RT broadcaster said in a statement on Monday.

Over 2.4 million households across the cities of Houston, Galveston and Pasadena have gained access to RT en Espanol, the Spanish-language television channel of the RT tv network, thanks to its launch on the Televiva platform, the statement read.

"Latin America loves our channel: RT audience has almost tripled in two years in the region. Just recently, we extended RT en Espanol broadcasting as part of Argentina's national television network. Now Spanish speakers in the US will get access to RT's alternative perspective on world events," Viktoria Vorontsova, RT en Espanol head, said.

RT en Espanol launched its broadcasting in December 2009 and received the Broadcast Digital Award for the Best Channel Launch.

In early December this year, RT signed an agreement with Argentina to prolong of the broadcasting license until October 2022.

According to a survey by US research firm Ipsos, within the last two years, the weekly RT en Espanol audience in Latin America has almost tripled up 18 million people currently watch the channel every week in ten countries in the region.

According to SimilarWeb research company engaged in web analytics services for businesses RT Spanish's online audience has surpassed all other Spanish-language websites of international news channels, in particular, BBC, CNN, Euronews, France 24 and TeleSur for several months. RT Spanish has also over 1 billion views on YouTube, and thus, exceeds all other Spanish-language versions of international TV news outlets.